Assistant Professor, Physical Anthropology,

Anthropology Graduate Program Advisor

Ph.D., University of Tennessee, 2004

Areas of Specialization: Paleoanthropology, with research interests in modern human origins

Email: arthur.durband@ttu.edu

Office: Holden Hall 273

Phone: 806-742-2401 x237

Spring 2009 Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays, 1:30–2:30 p.m. or by appointment

Assistant Professor, Archaeology

Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin, 1996

Areas of Specialization: Texas prehistory, Mesoamerica, Maya archaeology, site planning, Cultural Resource Management (CRM)

Email: brett.houk@ttu.edu

Website: http://www.webpages.ttu.edu/bhouk/

Office: Holden Hall 277

Phone: 806-742-2401 x234

Spring 2009 Office Hours: Wednesdays, 9:00–11:30 a.m. or by appointment

Professor of Anthropology, Forensic Anthropologist

Director of the Forensics Sciences Minor Program

Ph.D., University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1994

Areas of Specialization: Human osteology, skeletal histology, forensic anthropology, paleopathology (Texas prehistory, Villanovan culture, Iron-Age to Roman Imperial periods of Italy, 20th century South Africa autopsies, Roman-Byzantine burials of Turkey), nonhuman primate functional anatomy & histology

Email: robert.paine@ttu.edu

Website: http://www.webpages.ttu.edu/rpaine/

Office: Holden Hall 274

Phone: 806-742-2401 x241

Associate Professor, Archaeology

Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin, 2000

Areas of Specialization: Historic archaeology, Spanish Colonial Texas, coastal Ecuador

Email: tamra.walter@ttu.edu

Office: Holden Hall 270

Phone: 806-742-2401 x235

On leave Spring 2009

Professor of Anthropology

Chair, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work

Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin, 1987

Areas of Teaching:  linguistics, anthropological linguistics, expressive

culture, anthropology of music

Areas of research:  descriptive and documentary linguistics, contact

linguistics, dialectology, endangered languages, Papuan languages,

varieties of English in the West Indies, languages of mainland Southeast

Asia

Email: jeff.williams@ttu.edu

Office: Holden Hall 158a

Phone: 806-742-2400 x223

Spring 2009 Office Hours: by appointment